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Excerpt from Minutes of the Christian Convention, Held at Aurora, Illinois, October 31st and November 1st, 1867: Containing the Proceedings and Resolutions of the Convention, the Addresses of Rev. Messrs. Hart and Blanchard, With Copious Extracts From Congratulatory Letters, With the Addition of a Sermon on Freemasonry by Rev. Charles G. Finney, of Oberlin
There were Episcopal Methodists and Pro testant Methodists, Free Methodists, Wesley ans, Baptists and Free Will Baptists, United Brethren, German Lutherans, Congregation alists and Presbyterians, all speaking the same things. Eighty-seven members enrolled their names, and letters of congratulation poured in from Wisconsin to Mason and Dixon's line, and from Rhode Island to Washington Terri tory. We were thrilled and awed. We were evidently in the focus of that light which shi neth from one end of heaven to the other. The spirit which brooded over the chaos at creation was evidently moving on the deep. Of mind, was lifting up the standard promised when the enemy cometh in like a ?ood. We were reassured that there were reserved at least seven thousand men that have not bowed the knee to the image of Baa We gathered what we could of the light which shone around us, and the result is the work before you. We ask for it 'a candid and prayerfiil reading.
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